Basic pharma
UK companies organised by the CorpSignals industry, segment, and subsegment taxonomy.
Company snapshot
What this shows: the size and current activity of this classification, plus recent formations, company age, revenue coverage, and trade participation.
All companies
1910
Active companies
1359
Formed in latest 12 months
89
Median active-company age
7.8 years
Revenue known
42
Importers
279
Exporters
270
Top values shown in the chart
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| All companies | 1,910 |
| Active companies | 1,359 |
| Formed in latest 12 months | 89 |
| Importers | 279 |
| Exporters | 270 |
Revenue coverage among active companies: 42 known, 1317 unknown (3.1%).
Company formations
What this shows: monthly incorporations and dissolutions from 1 January 2024, including companies of every current status.
Latest ten months shown in the chart
| Month | Formed | Dissolved |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12 | 4 | 19 |
| 2026-01 | 5 | 9 |
| 2026-02 | 4 | 18 |
| 2026-03 | 5 | 20 |
| 2026-04 | 3 | 12 |
| 2026-05 | 8 | 16 |
| 2026-06 | 12 | 11 |
| 2026-07 | 6 | 29 |
| 2026-08 | 5 | 18 |
| 2026-09 | 4 | 18 |
Window: 2024-01 to 2026-09.
Company status
What this shows: all current Companies House status values. Companies House Active records with dormant accounts are shown as Dormant; the remaining Companies House Active records are shown as Active. Blank and missing values are combined as Unknown.
Top values shown in the chart
| Status | Companies |
|---|---|
| Active | 1,084 |
| Dissolved | 527 |
| Dormant | 275 |
| Liquidation | 21 |
| In Administration | 1 |
| Receiver Action | 1 |
| Voluntary Arrangement | 1 |
Active companies by UK region
What this shows: active companies with a known ITL2 region. The UK map falls back to a bar chart if map data cannot be loaded.
Top values shown in the chart
| ITL2 region | Companies |
|---|---|
| Inner London - West | 160 |
| Inner London - East | 103 |
| Outer London - West and North West | 81 |
| Greater Manchester | 70 |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | 61 |
| Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 51 |
| Surrey, East and West Sussex | 51 |
| West Midlands | 51 |
| Kent | 46 |
| South East Wales | 46 |
Geography coverage: 1353 known, 6 unknown (99.6%).
Revenue ranges
What this shows: active companies grouped into the platform’s ordered estimated-revenue bands.
Top values shown in the chart
| Revenue range | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0-1m | 526 |
| 1m-15m | 210 |
| 15m-54m | 29 |
| 54m+ | 127 |
Revenue-range coverage: 892 known, 467 unknown (65.6%).
Company size and employees
What this shows: active companies by published size category and by reported employee count.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company size | Companies |
|---|---|
| Micro | 304 |
| Small | 381 |
| Medium | 9 |
| Large | 156 |
| Holding | 19 |
| Dormant | 275 |
Company-size coverage: 1144 known, 215 unknown (84.2%).
Top values shown in the chart
| Employees | Companies |
|---|---|
| 0 | 253 |
| 1–9 | 378 |
| 10–49 | 56 |
| 50–249 | 21 |
| 250+ | 3 |
Employee coverage: 711 known, 648 unknown (52.3%).
Active-company age
What this shows: how long currently active companies have been incorporated.
Top values shown in the chart
| Age band | Companies |
|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 88 |
| 1–3 years | 246 |
| 3–5 years | 159 |
| 5–10 years | 298 |
| 10–20 years | 274 |
| 20+ years | 294 |
Incorporation-date coverage: 1359 known, 0 unknown (100.0%).
Classification breakdown
What this shows: active companies across the next taxonomy level; direct assignments are labelled separately. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| 21100 | 1,359 |
International trade
What this shows: active-company participation in imports and exports, followed by the ten HS2 categories involving the most distinct companies.
Top values shown in the chart
| Trade participation | Companies |
|---|---|
| Importer only | 59 |
| Exporter only | 50 |
| Both | 220 |
| Neither | 1,030 |
Top imports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 185 | £17,979,121,714 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 172 | £60,329,939,574 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 158 | £19,642,860,917 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 30 — Pharmaceutical Products | 146 | £68,854,495,501 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 29 — Organic Chemicals | 128 | £7,267,286,597 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 127 | £45,279,396,033 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 126 | £2,926,441,673 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 38 — Miscellaneous chemical products | 124 | £11,525,804,665 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 70 — Glass and Glassware | 95 | £438,287,431 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 33 — Essential oils and perfumes | 90 | £6,129,525,127 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Top exports HS2 categories
Top values shown in the chart
| HS2 category | Companies | GBP | Available dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90 — Optical and medical tools and devices | 145 | £14,209,732,335 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 30 — Pharmaceutical Products | 144 | £73,175,050,055 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 84 — Machinery, boilers, and mechanical appliances; parts | 140 | £19,479,540,577 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 39 — Plastics and plastic products | 120 | £6,466,796,572 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 38 — Miscellaneous chemical products | 115 | £9,845,482,808 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 85 — Electrical machinery and equipment | 103 | £11,613,810,540 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 29 — Organic Chemicals | 92 | £4,952,934,223 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 33 — Essential oils and perfumes | 90 | £6,125,757,831 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 48 — Paper and Paperboard Products | 68 | £698,064,782 | 2016-01-01 – 2026-05-01 |
| 49 — Printed materials like books, newspapers, and pictures | 56 | £2,770,425,864 | 2016-03-01 – 2026-05-01 |
Business and digital traits
What this shows: active companies identified with selected ownership, business-model, and online-presence traits.
Values shown in the chart with data coverage
| Trait | Companies | Known | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family business | 80 | 938 | 421 | 69.0% |
| Holding company | 3 | 938 | 421 | 69.0% |
| Solo founder | 473 | 938 | 421 | 69.0% |
| Ecommerce | 44 | 218 | 1,141 | 16.0% |
| Website | 278 | 289 | 1,070 | 21.3% |
| 243 | 289 | 1,070 | 21.3% |
Leading active companies
What this shows: the ten active companies with the highest non-missing revenue, with company number used as the deterministic tie-breaker.
Top values shown in the chart
| Company | Revenue |
|---|---|
| Crescent Pharma Limited | £96,475,385 |
| Octapharma Limited | £94,024,913 |
| Fine Organics Limited | £89,180,000 |
| Lofthouse Of Fleetwood Limited | £79,151,665 |
| Hvl Pharma Uk Ltd | £64,843,000 |
| West Pharmaceutical Services Cornwall Limited | £52,839,000 |
| Pierre Fabre Limited | £52,450,303 |
| Ennogen Healthcare International Limited | £51,914,110 |
| Miltenyi Biotec Limited | £46,047,168 |
| Chemidex Pharma Limited | £30,681,464 |
Revenue coverage: 42 known, 1317 unknown (3.1%).
Related classifications
What this shows: sibling classifications ranked by distinct active companies, excluding the current node. The top 20 are shown and remaining values are combined as Other.
Top values shown in the chart
| Classification | Companies |
|---|---|
| Vaccines, medicaments, diagnostic substances, biotech etc | 842 |
SIC classification
SIC 21100 — Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products
Includes
manufacture of medicinal active substances to be used for their pharmacological properties in the manufacture of medicaments: antibiotics, basic vitamins, salicylic and O-acetylsalicylic acids etc., processing of blood, manufacture of chemically pure sugars, processing of glands and manufacture of extracts of glands etc.